An exploration of the roles of conflict and forgetting in ancient Athens. Athens, 403 B.C.E. The bloody oligarchic dictatorship of the Thirty is over, and the d

The acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne's first book traces the odyssey of "truth," aletheia, from mytho-religious concept to philosophical thought in a

This book is a study of the ways in which classical Athenian texts represent and evaluate the morality of deception. It is particularly concerned with the way i

The Classical Athenians were the first to articulate and implement the notion that ordinary citizens of no particular affluence or education could make responsi

During the course of a day we meet 24 ancient Athenians from all levels of society - from the slave-girl to the councilman, the fish-seller to the naval command